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It's getting a bit crowded in the Ducketts Lane Elementary School media center. In addition to about two dozen fifth-graders from the school assembled before a projection screen, media specialist Matthew Winner has invited about two dozen cyberspace invaders — a class from Rossville, Ind. — who show up courtesy of Skype. Students in both classrooms can see one another and take turns waving. Ducketts Lane students are accustomed to the interaction — Winner has allowed them to Skype with similar classes from as far away as China.

The State Highway Administration said on Tuesday that all traffic lanes are have been reopened on Interstate 95 North at MD 100 after the clearing of a two-vehicle accident involving an overturned truck that had blocked traffic in both directions. The collision occurred around 6:44 a.m. At 9 a.m. SHA said that activity remains on the right shoulder and delays stretch as far south as MD 216. The collision was among several traffic incidents during Tuesday morning's commute. A two-vehicle collision in Baltimore County on US 40 West at 66th Street has closed two westbound shoulders at 8:58 a.m. according to the state Department of Transportation.

Some restaurants are like department stores. Their menus tend to offer something for almost everyone. Others are more like boutiques, offering a more specialized type of cuisine. One such place is SushiQ on Washington Boulevard in Elkridge. Rather than taking the Pan-Asian route that seems to be so popular these days, SushiQ owners Jennifer and Kenny Qiu provide fare that is virtually all Japanese. Here, you won't find your future dinner entrée performing as part of a floor show.

An Elkridge man faces charges after allegedly shaking his 6-week-old daughter, Aubrey, to death, according to Howard County police. Aron James Krampf, 26, of the 6200 block of Ducketts Lane, was charged Wednesday evening with first- and second-degree assault, child abuse and reckless endangerment in connection with the Tuesday incident that occurred at Krampf's home, police said. Police said they anticipate charging Krampf with murder as well. The murder charge likely will be added when the case goes before a grand jury for indictment later this month. According to police, officers and paramedics were called to the home at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday for a report of an unconscious infant who was not breathing.

The body of a swimmer missing since Sunday night in Patapsco Valley State Park was found Monday in the turbulent waters of the Patapsco River just below the Bloede Dam, a spokesman for Maryland Natural Resources Police said. The body of Arturo Acosta-Acero, 33, of Elkridge was found shortly after 2 p.m. by a Baltimore County Fire Department search-and-rescue crew, according to Sgt. Brian K. Albert of the Natural Resources Police. He said the body was found in churning water in the middle of the river.

Elizabeth E.W. Kirk has planned to be buried alongside her mother, Beatrice, and her family dogs at the Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park in Elkridge, believed to be one of the world's first pet cemeteries to allow people to be laid to rest with their animal companions. Her name is already set into the grassy turf there, on a bronze plaque with a photograph of her as a young woman snuggled in bed with five dogs. But now the 69-year-old worries that her final resting place may have to be someplace else.

A motorcyclist was killed in Elkridge Tuesday after colliding with a truck on Route 1. At 12:02 p.m., the motorcycle was coming over the crest of a hill on Route 1 northbound when it collided with a truck making a left-hand turn out of the southbound lane onto Kit Kat Road, according to Howard County Police. The motorcyclist, Nicholas Dion Finnegan, 22, of Gambrills, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Police closed Route 1 at Route 103 because of the investigation. Police do not expect to file charges against the driver of the truck, Alvarado Gonzalez, 53, of Alexandria, Va. The truck is owned by Georgetown Paper Stock.